Legal Issues
The legal issues topic contains news and information about legal issues affecting EMS personnel, agencies or departments. Find the latest news from personnel misconduct, to disciplinary and harassment cases, to malpractice lawsuits, as well as advice to prevent legal action with EMS training, documentation and management.
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The two individuals were charged with battery of a governmental representative and obstructing an officer, according to a report filed in Cabell County Magistrate Court
The paramedics were treated at Saint Barnabas Hospital for pain and swelling to the face and for a bite wound
Police reports detail poaching-related crimes perpetrated by Allegany County Department of Emergency Services Chief Christopher Biggs and others
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Genevieve Hansen, who was off duty, said she got louder and began swearing because Floyd “needed help and he wasn’t getting it”
Paramedic Derek Smith testified that officers did not say that Floyd wasn’t breathing and had no pulse
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The IAFF Local 1715 asked the Allegany County Government to remove Chief Christopher Biggs in October for a hostile work environment including “weaponization of quality assurance”
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“He told me that you guys are going to kill me,” the patient said before her boyfriend attacked, according to police
Federal authorities say David Hodges generated approximately $1,300 from selling the fake cards
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Elizabethtown police said the man was intoxicated and started spitting at the EMS providers before they put him in a spit hood
The child reportedly told a firefighter, a paramedic and hospital staff that he accidentally lit a Christmas tree on fire while playing with a lighter
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